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焦油 — meaning in English

jiāo yóu

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English meaning

  • tar noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.

Senses

焦油 is used for these senses in English:

  • tar (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.

tar — full definition

  1. noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
  2. verb To coat something with tar.
  3. noun In computing, a program (and the archive file it creates) used to bundle multiple files together on Unix-based systems.
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